I was at the Library with my wife Lois last year (Nov 5th 2015) when I borrowed The Hunt for Pierre Jnr on spec - the premise sounded a good one. And what a read it turned out to be. It is one of my books of the year and it's written by Australian author David M. Henley.
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I found out afterwards that it is the first of 3 books in the Pierre Jnr Trilogy
Book 1 - The Hunt for Pierre Jnr 2013
Book 2 - Manifestations (2014)
Book 3 - Convergence (2015)
This is a very creative and different view of what the world might look like in 150 years - a post-apocalyptic world where society has progressed instead of regressed - a consensus based government, psi powers, cybernetics.
Pierre Jnr has a mind more powerful than any the world has encountered before. He can make you forget, he can control you and he is only eight years old. Three months after his birth he escaped. An hour later he was lost to surveillance. No one knows where he has been for the last eight years ... Now Pierre Jnr is about to return.
THE HUNT FOR PIERRE JNR follows the activities of an elite group dedicated to tracking down the eight-year-old boy who is currently the greatest threat humanity has ever known. It’s a pacy and gripping chase, and an impressive vision of our future.
It took a while to find the spare time but in September 2016, I decided it was time to finish the trilogy so I borrowed the other 2 books from Moreland Library one at a time and read them - First Manifestations and then Convergence.
Manifestations quickly expanded the story line, with a new and unknown menace in Kronos. The players who had been central in the first story, namely Pierre Jnr and Peter Lazarus, were sidelined and sank to the relative background as the story went off onto parallel tangents.
Convergence brings more new characters into the story with the strange and enigmatic Sibs, third generation robots that seemingly have only mankind's good in mind but who refuse to lead and can only help and hint at final solutions.
The final conclusion to the trilogy is breathtaking and it does leave many things unresolved and unsaid. There is certainly room for a fourth instalment, should the author so desire. The Endnote certainly hints at the possibility.
One could end by saying what might happen next. We can forever ask, 'Then what happened? Then what happened?' 'What did Takashi do next?' 'Did he and Ryu find a way to restore their relationship?' 'What is Pinter going to do now that he is young again?' 'How is the world going to react to the arrival of the sibs?' 'And what about Kronos?'
The future is something we walk backwards into. All we can see is what has already happened and try to understand that. The moment we call 'now' moves to our periphery and falls further and further behind into the past when we will finally be able to see it clearly. This is my way of saying that any answers about future events would be speculative, until such time as they are written.
Definitely worth reading. Fantastic!
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